European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page i the stars and stripes Friday october �4,1986 social Security checks to Rise Washington a the nation s 37.4 millions Security  will gel a 1.3 percent Benefit in Crew in january list win put an extra $6 in the average retired worker monthly Check the govern it i by for us Madest annual increase Tince Bene fit were tied to the consumer Price Index 1 1 Yean health and human service Secretary Otis r. Boca hid the increase will appear in us Check that social Security beneficiaries receive on Jin. 2 and also in the checks that 3.8 million supplemental Security income welfare recipients get of dec. 3f. It Roheim tic average social Security pension for retired workers will climb from $482 to $488 a month. The average elderly couple who an both drawing social Security will get an ii 1 increase from $822 to $833 a  the maximum social Security Benefit for some one retiring in 198$ Ai age of win climb by 19, from officials declare Price drop on ofe Aroma of Tulsa okla. A Oklahoma authorities Are weary of comparisons Between the state s wheat and "weed71 oops so they re changing the Way they compute Dollar values for this year s record letting marijuana Harvest. Tom Soof Bec of the Oklahoma Bureau of narcotics and dangerous drugs says his Agency changed the method of setting value on seized marijuana plants partly because the Large figure was embarrassing authorities. In the past the Agency valued each marijuana Plant at $1,000. This year wild growing marijuana was lagged at $100 Plant the Price is based on the potential Street value of the product the old figures gave a distorted picture of the marijuana Economy in Oklahoma said Sosbee. And people were always trying to compare it to the wheat  he said that in previous years the 1.4 million marijuana plants found this year would have been Given a value of 11,4 billion. The 1986 Oklahoma wheat crap is valued atless than $500 million according to the state department of agriculture. The previous record marijuana Harvest i Oklahoma was in 1984 when agents seized 1.3 minion plants with 130,000 of those cultivated cultivated marijuana is Given a higher value because it is More potent than the wild variety. This year 35,353 seized plants were categorized As cultivated bringing the total Worth of the j,4 Mulky plants to $758 minion. Sosbee said state a Gnu have discovered there u a trend toward smaller plots which Are Hawk 0 detect in Aerial searches and a Migra Tion of marijuana growers from Texas and Cali forja to Oklahoma because of Oklahoma in state menu found 333 marijuana plots an arrested 5.0 people this year. La 1985,265 plots were discovered and there were 46 arrests. It is the fourth straight year the Benefit hike has been at an Al time Low. The Benefit went up 33 per cent for both 1983 and 1984, and 3.1 percent for 1981.the Peak year a i960, when benefits soared 14.3  Security beneficiaries would have received no hike for 1986 had not Congress and president Reagan scrapped a trigger in the Law that barred any Benefit increase if inflation fed blow 3  signed legislation tuesday eliminating that Lee their maximum tax ibeby$22t to to t$3$mq-some 8.5 of lion workers and Adf Nuto Der som who earn More than $41,000 win be fled Ebythe higher c 10 does the maximum amount wages subject to the social stonely payroll tax the government win Levy the 7.15 percent payroll1d9 Eov Hubbli will Evv us  j a Vii a Yiv tax on earnings up to $43,800 in 1987, up from this veal s $42,000 cutoff. The tax rate does not change id1987. But the maximum tax on an individual worker wine $3.131.70. That is $128.70, or 4.29 percent More than this year s top tax. Employers must pay the Sam amount social Security commit Ion Dacca said her Aptacy will Sead out notes to  about the increase. They wih not have to Tan action to get the increase. It win be in their checks she said. The higher Benefit win Cost social Security s Trust funds s2.6 billion in 1987. The raise became official with the labor depart ment s release of the consumer Price Index for sep Lember. The increase matches the inflation rate fro the third Quarter of 1985 to the third Quarter of thl year. Benefits Are rounded Down to the next Dollar  most people wind up with an increase slightly smaller than the Eufal inflation nit. Mean smaller tha the exact inflation rate student suing maker of drug test after Tea identified As hashish Paris. Texas a a College student who was along with the Bigelow constant comment almost arrested after a police drug test mistakenly identified a package of spiced Tea As hashish has sue the manufacturer of a Ding testing kit. Elizabeth Horn a student at Paris county Junio College contends in the suit that she has been defamed and slandered. The suit against Becton. Dickinson & co whose Public safety products division manufactures the kit does not Alc for a specific amount in damage. The Case Bam last week when authorities at the school Post office discovered a Brown substance leak ing from a package addressed to Horn. A school Security officer took a Sample of the Pond Ery substance to the Lamar county sheriffs office for testing. The test said it was hashish. Three officers with a search warrant went to Horn room thursday. I could t believe these Guys were going through my room. 1 was really scared. They went through everything every drawer All my makeup. My Adrena line was really pumping she told the Dallas morning news. Alter Horn made an impassioned Tea of innocence officers decided not to arrest her without some further checking. Alon comment spiced Tea the package contained chocolate Bubble Bath and vitamins from her Mother in Chicago Homs id. Her Boyfriend Mike Flanary notified his father lawyer Bill Flanary about Horn s Legal problem. I was pretty upset about it. I Felt like if it tested Tobe Bash own it must be hash Bill Flanary said. I told her to come Dean. But Horn convinced him it was not a drug wheat Landry went to the sheriff Folke the not Rao Sumi to witness a repeat of the drug test that produced positive results be pulled some Brown powder out bran euro Lope and asked the officers to test it Loo. It tested As hash. The stunned officers asked him where he got it-1 bought it at Safeway this morning Belaud pro doing Jar of priced Tea the county prosecutor agreed to write t letter of apology to Hom and an explanation to school officials. Joe Flaherty National manager of the Public safety product division for Becton said us Tenor. Device % Only intended to provide Reform anon foe the Awe a suspect not conviction. Flaherty also said the company is advised of a few incidents each year in which the lest has mistakenly identified products a narcotics. Portsmouth shipyard to be upgraded Kittery Maine a the Portsmouth naval shipyard which straddles the Border Between new Hampshire and Maine and is one of Northern new England s largest employers will undergo a $240 Mil lion modernization it was announced thursday. The modernization will be based on a product online concept developed by retired shipyard employee Ken Lanalle who spoke at a news conference held outside the shipyard. The modernized facility will be capable of overhaul ing advanced submarines including ones still on the drawing Board Lanzillo said one of three dry docks will be covered making win Ter work More comfortable for workers and More efficient Lanzillo said. Sen. Gordon Humphrey . Said the pro duo Tina line could trim Boa   Cost of a submarine or Hibl. The Rooder Ontalon Wib make the Tompy Ait a competitive and remit in h influx of  Money in the area said sen. Warren Rodman Iwu the shipyard end Lori about 7,400 people Bat tit. J r.1 a ii i i ii till pm a met a  jul not dec Esaakiy hut Nion Jonov a a  said Money  Flowie Fer project in the fiscal be beam eng Hie. Neat said no Date has been set Jordnes Notoff of Rodman Jarf be a Ghana Coto Flthe pop fact  to pts a Plum Ingi Latora Toni the two fut i the  Tver Al weeks a of Bat it  . T lab identifies remains of 4 Vietnam Tea by Nohman  Sattary writer Washington the Pentagon said than Day an army Laboratory had identified the remains of four service rans a Snag in Southeast Asia since the Vietnam War. Relatives of the four men who were inthe air Force and Navy have been Noti fied of lie identifications the Pentagon the remains an to be flows from a was & cat Foroi on Friday follow int full military  at Akkam earlier this year. Fab the Pentagon added. The three sets of the remains woe among Foj.  it stand roof 21 repatriated by Vietnam to la commo Esi to Watt at film.  Danril in Tite other remain recovered at the crash site ?to1e1ni.ibllu a is Bately to the fourth set of remains was among 14 recover Tel to february Darin a i  Cavatio at the crash site of an aft Force time of their ac-130 gun Stu in. Savanna Kart prov i i a tip a of gym Ai